"um, actually, Frankenstein is the doctor's name"
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"the sin of Frankenstein was not that he created life, but that he abandoned his responsibility to that life. this has entered the public consciousness as 'the monster was inherently dangerous because it was unnatural,' which is, um, actually, the doctor's sorry excuse"
very much so! the being ("the monster") learns to read—and learns about the world—by reading milton's Paradise Lost during his seclusion. this, importantly, shapes his understanding of his own creation, and fuels his desire for Victor ("the doctor") to make for him a female compatriot: if his creator does, then the being is Adam, and with his Eve can rationalize himself as fallen but still within the light of salvation and able to labour for the fruits of the earth. if, however, Victor does not, then the being knows himself as the peerless Satan, and the world can only know his sorrow and his wrath